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WASHINGTON — The United States this month received the first shipment of U.S.-origin spent fuel repatriated through the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, which seeks to recover U.S.- and Russian-origin fresh and spent nuclear fuel from research reactors around the world, the U.S. Energy Department announced this week (see GSN, July 21).

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Second report of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). The Global Fissile Material Report is a yearly overview on stocks and production of fissile materials and on policies that could accelerate their elimination.

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WASHINGTON -- The short-term continuing budget resolution approved by the U.S. Congress last December undercuts programs crucial to President Obama's goal of securing the world's loose nuclear materials, according to a recent analysis by a nongovernment organization (see GSN, Dec. 23, 2010).

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Mexico has relinquished the last of its highly enriched uranium in accordance with a nuclear security cooperation deal reached with the United States and Canada, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Tuesday.

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May 26, 2015

This paper lays out a roadmap with five pathways to ending civilian HEU use and to beginning the necessary research and development to minimize and ultimately eliminate HEU for naval use, with specific recommendations that countries can undertake prior to the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.

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First report of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). The Global Fissile Material Report is a yearly overview on stocks and production of fissile materials and on policies that could accelerate their elimination.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency last week praised the launch of the U.S. Global Threat Reduction Initiative, which seeks to recover U.S.- and Russian-origin fresh and spent highly enriched uranium fuel from research reactors around the world (see GSN, May 27).

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Energy Department has decided to extend a program to take back U.S.-origin spent fuel from foreign research reactors to keep the material out of the hands of those seeking to develop nuclear weapons, according to a notice published yesterday in the Federal Register (see GSN, Dec. 16, 2003).

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A research reactor in Latvia is set to be decommissioned and its spent highly enriched uranium fuel returned to Russia as part of the U.S. Global Threat Reduction Initiative, officials said last week (see GSN, June 1).

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Romania and the International Atomic Energy Agency are developing plans for transporting spent fuel from a Romanian research reactor to Russia, the Romanian Rompres news agency reported yesterday (see GSN, July 21).